AUTO RACING – ALMS: Scaling The Heights In A Slot Car

Terry Dalton has been a competitive racer for years and this weekend he chases a world championship. But he won’t do it from a driver’s seat.

Instead, Dalton will stand outside the circuit with a remote control, watching as his No. 12 Ferrari 430 circles a track inside a 6,000-square-foot grey building in Concord, Ont.

The track is miniature – 45 meters long – and so is Dalton’s car, a petite replica of one that races in the Ferrari Challenge North America Series. Dalton competes with a model that’s 1/24th the size of the original.